Purchased the ioSafe Solo 500gb drive several months ago and it has been involved in my company's backup process ever since. It arrived in perfect condition and was very easy to set up. It has functioned flawlessly since set-up. Of course I have to rely on the independent reviews concerning data recovery following a fire or flood, but it appears that the drive will perform as claimed. Why not backup up your data and protect it at the same time using one drive? Great bargain in my opinion. Reginald DataCheck Systems, Inc.

-Reginald

Mine came with ST2000DL003-9VT166
This is from Seagate website
Low Power
Barracuda Green
RPM 5900
ST2000DL003 (Desktop Entry Level)
9VT166
3.5
2TB
SATA 6Gb/s
64MB Cache
3 Years warranty.
So, not the best performer, but not a Hitachi that some other person was complaining about.
I can't objectively review the observed performance, since I plugged the enclosure into an Asus RT-N16 Router. I am seeing only 25Mbit/s writing over 1GBit Ethernet. I am sure it's the router problem, and I'll have to work on it.
However, the drive did work out of the box, just plugged it into the router and could see it on the network. I think it came preformatted (or the router formatted it?)
The thing to note is that we are paying a lot for the enclosure here. Even with this $200 for 2TB 1year recover, it's about $100 for enclosure.
The box is really heavy, which instills confidence. The fan is audible, but not too loud. Still, I wouldn't put it on your desk next to your MacBook.
I only had this for a few days, so this is not a long term review.

Great Backup Protection!

by Reginald on 4/29/2010

Purchased the ioSafe Solo 500gb drive several months ago and it has been involved in my company's backup process ever since. It arrived in perfect condition and was very easy to set up. It has functioned flawlessly since set-up. Of course I have to rely on the independent reviews concerning data recovery following a fire or flood, but it appears that the drive will perform as claimed. Why not backup up your data and protect it at the same time using one drive? Great bargain in my opinion. Reginald DataCheck Systems, Inc.
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I know you are wondering what HD is inside

by Mark on 5/29/2011

Mine came with ST2000DL003-9VT166
This is from Seagate website
Low Power
Barracuda Green
RPM 5900
ST2000DL003 (Desktop Entry Level)
9VT166
3.5
2TB
SATA 6Gb/s
64MB Cache
3 Years warranty.
So, not the best performer, but not a Hitachi that some other person was complaining about.
I can't objectively review the observed performance, since I plugged the enclosure into an Asus RT-N16 Router. I am seeing only 25Mbit/s writing over 1GBit Ethernet. I am sure it's the router problem, and I'll have to work on it.
However, the drive did work out of the box, just plugged it into the router and could see it on the network. I think it came preformatted (or the router formatted it?)
The thing to note is that we are paying a lot for the enclosure here. Even with this $200 for 2TB 1year recover, it's about $100 for enclosure.
The box is really heavy, which instills confidence. The fan is audible, but not too loud. Still, I wouldn't put it on your desk next to your MacBook.
I only had this for a few days, so this is not a long term review.
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Great product

Noisy, but worth it

on 3/22/2012

I am really happy with this backup drive. I use it instead of off-site storage for my home. The fan is a little noisier than I am used to since I am on a Mac, but would sound equivalent to a boutique PC with standard fans.
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Overview

The rugged desktop ioSafe Solo external hard drive brings disaster protection to a price range that everyone can afford. With capacities from 500GB to 2TB, the ioSafe Solo can safely protect precious digital family photo albums, MP3 music libraries and days of video memories. For business, the ioSafe Solo hard drive is a great way to protect customer databases or to secure regulated information including patient records (HIPAA, Sox, etc) or credit card information (PCI regulated). Businesses use the Solo hard drive as a backup and storage device, no longer worrying about data loss from moving computer tapes and files offsite. Like other ioSafe products, the ioSafe Solo uses ioSafe patented technology including FloSafe air flow cooling, HydroSafe waterproof barriers and the DataCast fireproof insulation.

DRS = ioSafe Data Recovery Service

Phone Support: ioSafe or its contracted partner will provide phone or email based support to assist in recovering the data, or

Factory Recovery: ioSafe will pay for the disaster exposed product to be shipped back to ioSafe’s headquarters for data recovery. If data recovery is successful, a replacement product will be loaded with the original data and shipped back to the original user, or

$1000 Third Party Recovery: At the discretion of ioSafe, if the data recovery by the Company is not successful, the Company will pay up to $1000.00 to a third-party disk recovery service of the Company's choice to extract the data. Any data extracted will be loaded on a replacement product and shipped back to the original user.

Please see ioSafe’s website for full details: http://iosafe.com/disaster-recovery-service